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North Star (locomotive)

North Star was a 2-2-2 broad gauge steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson & Co. in 1837, diverted from an American order to the Great Western Railway.

North Station (Boston)

North Station is a rail terminal at 135 Causeway Street in Boston, under TD Garden, serving MBTA Commuter Rail lines and Amtrak's Downeaster to Maine.

North Tarrant Express

The North Tarrant Express is a system of rebuilt and tolled managed lanes on I-820, SH 121/183, and I-35W northeast of Fort Worth, Texas, opened in 2014.

North Texas Tollway Authority

The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA), created in 1997 to succeed the Texas Turnpike Authority, is a Texas political subdivision operating toll roads in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including the Dallas North Tollway.

North Warning System

The North Warning System is a chain of radar stations across northern Alaska and Canada, built between 1986 and 1992 to replace the DEW Line for NORAD surveillance.

North West Redwater Partnership

North West Redwater Partnership is an Alberta general partnership, formed in 2011, that designed, financed, built, and operates the Sturgeon Refinery near Redwater, northeast of Edmonton.

North West Shelf Project

Australia's largest oil and gas development, the North West Shelf Project produces LNG and domestic gas off Western Australia from the Karratha Gas Plant, operating since 1984.

North West Water

North West Water was the water and sewerage utility for North West England, created in 1974 as a regional water authority, privatized in 1989, and renamed United Utilities in 1996.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway, also known as the North York Moors Railway, is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, running steam trains from Pickering to Whitby.

North-West Oil Pipeline Network

The North-West Oil Pipeline Network, also known as Nord-West Oelleitung or NWO, is a German crude oil pipeline system from Wilhelmshaven to refineries in northern and western Germany.

North-West Power Generation

North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) is a state-owned electricity generation company in Bangladesh, wholly owned by the Bangladesh Power Development Board and incorporated in 2007.

North–South and East–West Corridor

The North–South and East–West Corridor (NS-EW) is a pair of four-lane highway axes in India's National Highways Development Project, running Srinagar to Kanyakumari and Silchar to Porbandar.

Northbridge (computing)

The northbridge, also called the Memory Controller Hub, was the chip in classic two-chip PC chipsets that connected the CPU to memory, graphics, and the southbridge.

NorthConnex

NorthConnex is a nine-kilometer twin tolled motorway tunnel in Sydney's north linking the M1 Pacific Motorway at Wahroonga to the Hills M2 Motorway at West Pennant Hills, opened in 2020.

Northeast blackout of 1965

The Northeast blackout of 1965 was a cascading power failure that began in Ontario on November 9 and left about 30 million people without power for up to 13 hours.

Northeast blackout of 2003

The Northeast blackout of 2003 was a cascading grid failure on August 14, 2003, that cut power to about 50 million people in the US and Ontario.

Northeast Corridor

The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is a 457-mile electrified passenger rail line from Washington, D.C., through Philadelphia and New York to Boston, the busiest rail corridor in North America.

Northeast Corridor Improvement Project

The Northeast Corridor Improvement Project (NECIP) was a federally funded program under the 1976 4R Act to rehabilitate the 456-mile Boston–New York–Washington rail line, meeting its Washington–New York speed goal but missing Boston's.

Northeast Frontier Railway zone

Northeast Frontier Railway, abbreviated NFR, is a zone of Indian Railways headquartered at Maligaon in Guwahati, Assam, that has served India's entire northeastern region since 1958.

Northeast Maglev

Northeast Maglev, formally The Northeast Maglev, is a Maryland-based company promoting Japanese SCMaglev trains in the US Northeast Corridor; its Baltimore-Washington project's federal environmental review was canceled in 2025.

Northeast Regional

The Northeast Regional is Amtrak's busiest intercity train service, running frequently along the Northeast Corridor between Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, carrying over 12 million passengers in fiscal year 2025.

Northeast Supply Enhancement

Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) is a proposed Transco pipeline expansion by Williams to deliver about 400,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey to New York City.

Northeastern Station

Northeastern Station, also called Northeastern Power Station, is a power plant in Oologah, Oklahoma, owned by Public Service Company of Oklahoma, an American Electric Power subsidiary.

Northern Border Gas Pipeline

The Northern Border Gas Pipeline is a 1,412-mile United States interstate natural gas pipeline running from the Canadian border in Montana to Midwest markets in Illinois and Indiana.

Northern Coalfields

Northern Coalfields Limited, or NCL, is an Indian state-owned coal mining company headquartered at Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, operating ten mechanized opencast mines across Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Northern Courier Pipeline System

The Northern Courier Pipeline System is a 90-kilometer dual pipeline in Alberta transporting heated bitumen from the Fort Hills oil sands mine to Suncor's East Tank Farm.

Northern Gas Networks

Northern Gas Networks is a British gas distribution company that owns the pipes serving 2.9 million customers across North East England, northern Cumbria, and much of Yorkshire.

Northern Gas Pipeline

The Northern Gas Pipeline, also known as the North East Gas Interconnector, is a 622 km pipeline linking Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, to Mount Isa, Queensland, opened in 2019.

Northern Heavy Industries Group

Northern Heavy Industries Group is a Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer based in Shenyang, formed in 2006, that makes tunnel boring machines from 3 to 15 meters in diameter.

Northern line

The Northern line, once called the Edgware, Highgate and Morden Line, is a busy London Underground line running 58 km from Morden to three northern termini.